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>I told him I didn't like how he lied and did warn him not to lie beforehand but, like the rest of my friends, ignore my christian teachings. … What should I do? I am catholic btw and they are athiests.
No bully but you're doing it wrong.
Unless you're friends are Christians, or claim to be such, there's no point trying to remind them of their Christian moral obligations.
>Am I supposed to be happy for him? I mean I was happy at the prospect of him finally getting a job out of school but to get it out of dishonesty , even if he's my friend, I am confused. I wish he didn't lie.
I wish my friends wouldn't fornicate. I wish my country wouldn't lie, cheat, steal, murder and claim "national sovereignty/security" as the justification. I wish the citizens of my country actually cared for God.
We all have our burdens watching the sinfulness of the masses.
The key point for us is not to envy them. For sin reaps its own reward.
>We're both 18 and he said that everybody does it when I said that I didn't like that he lied in the interview. He's done it twice to my knowledge.
He's a heathen, an unregenerate individual, he doesn't see the issue, his heart is hardened to truth, and probably feels you're imposing a moral code on him he knows might be right, but is too inconvenient. You will not win him this way.
You can point out the PRACTICAL implications of his lie – that they will find out soon enough he doesn't know that language dude, you're supposed to do SMALL lies they can't catch you in! – that he will pay a price for his lie, but trying to save someone's soul by trying to correct their behaviour is not effective evangelism.
Rather, by all means point out the stark difference in moral codes between you – that YOU wouldn't have done that; that he will likely pay a material price for lying in addition to the spiritual one (and if he does, you get to both commiserate and remind him) – but you HAVE to make the Gospel clear, that God is, that we are sinners, that even YOU are a sinner, and that you won't condemn him for his lie, but there is a Judge who will.
If nothing else, it may spark a conversation about what you believe and why.
BUT, as St Peter instructed us, you must thereafter have an answer for when they ask about the hope within you.
We're not here to judge the world – the Lord is returning, and He is better equipped to do this than I am – nor to FORCIBLY conform the world to the image of God, but we MUST be the light that reminds the world that a JUDGE IS coming, that no sin will fail to be uncovered, and no man fail to face the Judge.
You and I, OP, we are the Judge's forerunners, His "John the Baptist"s, here to remind the world of the consequences of their sins and to repent now, for the time of judgement is approaching.
And when you figure out how to do that perfectly, let us all here know.